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The political and social changes observed in the Kingdom of Italy between the middle of the 11th Century and the middle of the 12th Century have concentrated, in the last decades, many studies. Studies which have favored some debates on the characteristics with which such transformations, and its chronologies, are defined. This article aims to consider two recent works on the regnum Italiae (1080-1130) to observe, through the emergence of the communes and the maturation of the rural lordship, the spaces and languages of change which have developed through the informality of their political solutions. ; Los cambios políticos y sociales observables en el reino de Italia entre mediados del siglo XI y mediados del siglo XII han concentrado una gran cantidad de estudios en los últimos años que han favorecido, a su vez, algunos debates en torno a las cronologías en las que colocar y a los caracteres con que definir tales transformaciones. En este artículo se tienen en consideración dos recientes obras sobre el centro-norte de la península italiana con el objeto de observar, a través del nacimiento de las comunas y de la maduración de los señoríos rurales, un momento de cambio que fue lentamente desarrollándose a través de la informalidad de sus soluciones políticas.

In the last decades, much work have been done to deconstruct the mechanisms of government in Early Medieval Europe. In that task, the interpretation of the settlement of disputes and royal/imperial diplomas as the basis of the central government strategies in local spheres has been underlined by recent historiography. Following this methodology, the aim of this article is, thus, to analyze the mechanisms of governance in the March of Tuscany in a time characterized by political fluidity, focusing in the role played by the kings and lay and ecclesiastical aristocracies in the construction of complex political systems.

In the last decades, much work have been done to deconstruct the mechanisms of government in Early Medieval Europe. In that task, the interpretation of the settlement of disputes and royal/imperial diplomas as the basis of the central government strategies in local spheres has been underlined by recent historiography. Following this methodology, the aim of this article is, thus, to analyze the mechanisms of governance in the March of Tuscany in a time characterized by political fluidity, focusing in the role played by the kings and lay and ecclesiastical aristocracies in the construction of complex political systems. ; In the last decades, much work have been done to deconstruct the mechanisms of government in Early Medieval Europe. In that task, the interpretation of the settlement of disputes and royal/imperial diplomas as the basis of the central government strategies in local spheres has been underlined by recent historiography. Following this methodology, the aim of this article is, thus, to analyze the mechanisms of governance in the March of Tuscany in a time characterized by political fluidity, focusing in the role played by the kings and lay and ecclesiastical aristocracies in the construction of complex political systems.

Si intende interpretare, partendo dagli spunti offerti dalla recente storiografia sulla nozione di confine, il territorio di frontiera tra il regnum Langobardorum e l'Esarcato bizantino d'Italia: oggetto della ricerca è il gruppo di castra emiliani a ridosso delle terre del regnum citati dalle fonti nel secolo VIII, e in modo particolare l'esempio offerto dal castrum Persiceta. L'analisi chiarisce come la frontiera costituisse un ambito di confine labile, un'area di separazione politica, e cerca di offrire una lettura che, attraverso l'analisi dei processi di lunga durata, metta in evidenza la specificità dei castra quali unità di inquadramento della popolazione e quali sedi d'interlocuzione tra poteri locali e strutture politiche centrali nei secoli V-IX.

Si intende interpretare, partendo dagli spunti offerti dalla recente storiografia sulla nozione di confine, il territorio di frontiera tra il regnum Langobardorum e l'Esarcato bizantino d'Italia: oggetto della ricerca è il gruppo di castra emiliani a ridosso delle terre del regnum citati dalle fonti nel secolo VIII, e in modo particolare l'esempio offerto dal castrum Persiceta. L'analisi chiarisce come la frontiera costituisse un ambito di confine labile, un'area di separazione politica, e cerca di offrire una lettura che, attraverso l'analisi dei processi di lunga durata, metta in evidenza la specificità dei castra quali unità di inquadramento della popolazione e quali sedi d'interlocuzione tra poteri locali e strutture politiche centrali nei secoli V-IX. ; Starting from the suggestions coming from recent historical studies on the concept of border, we mean to analyse the border area between the regnum Langobardorum and the Byzantine Exarchate in Italy. The subject of the research is the group of castra in the Emilia region along the territories of the regnum mentioned in the sources in the 8th century, and mainly the castrum Persiceta. The analysis shows how the frontier were an uncertain bordering ambit, an area of political separation, and tries offering an interpretation that, through the analysis of long term processes, points out the specificity of castra as framework units for the population and media between local powers and central political structures in the period from the 5th to the 9th century.

The past few decades have witnessed great change in the study of the early Middle Ages in the Northern Iberian Peninsula. Spanish and Portuguese historiographies have moved away from older grand narratives such as 'Reconquest and Repopulation', which traced a centuries-long process encompassing the ultimate victory of Christianity over Islam and the construction of distinct nations or national societies. The basic tenets of these and other essentialist approaches to a period traditionally seen as the cradle of Spain and Portugal have been questioned and now superseded by a clearer awareness of the territorial diversity characterising the 8th to 11th centuries. Yet the ballast of both nationalism and regionalism has obstructed meaningful comparison amongst the Iberian regions to date. Drawing on the work of the research group EarlyMedIberia, this article argues for a new trans-regional approach to Northern Iberia, looking beyond political and geographical boundaries to consider the whole in a comparative light, and stressing the commonalities between regional and local societies. It does so by providing an overview of the extant charter material from before 1100 (indicating the principal editions) and by reviewing the major historiography. The conclusion proposes a closer assessment of the differences and similarities amongst regional historiographies, based on a more nuanced understanding of how they have been moulded by the specificities of the charter corpus in each region, as the first step towards a more integrated, contextualised, and rigorously comparative approach to the early Middle Ages in Northern Iberia.